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Docker on Windows

By : Elton Stoneman
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Docker on Windows

By: Elton Stoneman

Overview of this book

Docker is a platform for running server applications in lightweight units called containers. You can run Docker on Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10, and run your existing apps in containers to get significant improvements in efficiency, security, and portability. This book teaches you all you need to know about Docker on Windows, from 101 to deploying highly-available workloads in production. This book takes you on a Docker journey, starting with the key concepts and simple examples of how to run .NET Framework and .NET Core apps in Windows Docker containers. Then it moves on to more complex examples—using Docker to modernize the architecture and development of traditional ASP.NET and SQL Server apps. The examples show you how to break up monoliths into distributed apps and deploy them to a clustered environment in the cloud, using the exact same artifacts you use to run them locally. To help you move confidently to production, it then explains Docker security, and the management and support options. The book finishes with guidance on getting started with Docker in your own projects, together with some real-world case studies for Docker implementations, from small-scale on-premises apps to very large-scale apps running on Azure.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

From monolith to distributed solution


NerdDinner has evolved from a legacy monolith to an easily scalable, easily extensible solution running on a modern application platform using modern design patterns. It's been a fast and low risk evolution, powered by the Docker platform and container-first design.

The project started by migrating NerdDinner to Docker as-is, running containers for the web application and the SQL Server database. Now I have eight components, each running in a lightweight Docker container and each capable of being independently deployed, so they can follow their own release cadence:

One of the great benefits of Docker is the huge library of packaged software available to add to your solution. The official images on Docker Hub are enterprise-grade open source software systems that have been tried and trusted by the community for years. Certified images on Docker Store provide commercial software which is guaranteed to work correctly on Docker EE.

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